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This is True is a weekly email newsletter with several short bizarre-but-true news items from legitimate news outlets from around the world. Each story ends with a comment — a tagline which is humorous, ironic, or opinionated (or with luck, some combination of the three). True is non-partisan.

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Randy’s weekly newsletter includes weird-but-true stories like…

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A man sued his doctor because he survived his cancer longer than the doctor predicted.

Two robbers were in the process of their crime when one changed his mind and arrested the other.

A woman had her husband’s ashes made into an egg timer when he died so he could still “help” in the kitchen.

Only 68 of 200 Anglican priests polled could name all Ten Commandments, but half said they believed in space aliens.

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True’s Mission is to Promote More Thinking in the World. But if readers aren’t entertained by the stories, they won’t read very many. So its vehicle is weird-but-true news from legitimate news sources from around the world. The result spans the gamut of the crazy things we humans think we can get away with: this collection of jaw-dropping examples of the human thought process, and the realization that we can do better — a lot better!

This site also has an extensive weird news archive, an active and thought-provoking blog, and several sister sites such as the thought-provoking (yet entertaining!) memes site Randy’s Random, and Randy’s educational Spam Primer to help you regain control of your inbox.

So spend some time looking around: there’s a lot of fun stuff that has been added since 1994! But be sure to subscribe for free in the box on this page — your email privacy has been Randy’s strict policy since 1994.

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